I am curious if the Fink Community has specific knowledge about a better system or any type of idea that could help us improve our Web-Infrastructure.
I've no doubt you're about to get recommendations for every open source CMS out their :) But I'll throw mine in too. Drupal: <http://drupal.org/> This would require a hosting environment with php, mysql and preferably mod_rewrite support (the latter to provide clean urls). I'll discuss some of the drupal features that would make it a good choice below.
Especially the Navigation and the ease of use for our website is something that bothers me.
I've always felt the fink site was fairly clean, I don't think you can do that much better a job of it with such a large and diverse site. A redesign of the current menus might help, merging the two sections vs navigation menus for instance.
I do sort of see what you mean though, the fink site has grown somewhat organically...
Drupal is very robust and has certain features that would, I think, help. Most notably the 'collaborative book' designed to allow many people to work on documentation. Together with it's taxonomy, version control and role based permission system it should allow other people to take some of the weight for writing and maintaining documentation whilst still allowing overall control.
Plus it has all the usual CMS features like story/news submission and forum's which can be turned on if needed. It would certainly provide the quick news posting feature you talked about.
You can take a closer look at Drupal features here: <http://drupal.org/features>
The only thing I'm not sure about is how you'd integrate the package database, which seems somewhat unique, but I'm sure that's doable.
This also means that I am looking for Web-Coders and Web-Designers willing to devote some time
I'd certainly be willing to donate a bit of web design time, and would certainly be available for setting up and tweaking drupal.
Adrian
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